Early Spring 2018

Michigan CRLT Players, Cuts: Responding to Student Climate Concerns

Registration is open until February 21!

Please join us for a two-hour interactive, theater-based workshop titled Cuts: Responding to Student Climate Concerns, presented by the Michigan Players. The Michigan Players invite participants to think together about the many forces that can shape campus climate both positively and negatively. Built around a series of vignettes that explore students' experiences of marginalization, each session offers a space where participants can practice engaging in difficult conversations about and across differences in identity while also reflecting on their personal responsibilities to cultivate inclusive and equitable spaces within and outside of the classroom.

2018 Connect Grant Recipients

Capacity-Building for Broader Impacts Contributions to STEM and Science Policy Research

PI – Evelyn Brister, Associate Professor of Philosophy, CLA

Promotion Package Prep (P cubed): Celebrating Promotion

The P^³ Group started in 2016 and the first group consisted of women faculty from five different colleges (COS, KGCOE, CAST, GCCIS, and NTID). Out of this group, six submitted their proposal packages and all were promoted to full professor. Based on the positive feedback from participants the first year, we broadened the effort and we now coordinate the formation of P^³ Groups for ALL interested tenured faculty seeking promotion to full Professor and lecturers seeking promotion to Senior or Principal Lecturer.

First Women’s Caucus launched as part of RIT Academic Senate

New shared governance organization focuses on advocacy and collaboration on important women’s issues Carol Marchetti, professor of statistics, AdvanceRIT co-PI, and coordinator of the RIT Women’s Caucus, formally launched the Women’s Caucus, a new campus advocacy organization, at the Nov. 16 Academic Senate meeting.

AdvanceRIT Fall 2017, Session Recaps

Participants reported a greater awareness of the meaning of a vibrant learning environment, inclusive of all students. About a month after the workshop, people described motivation to cultivate vibrant learning environments in their own classrooms, believing they could make a difference in students’ lives for the better.